proftpd

sobers_2002 · Veteran Joined: 16 Mar 2004 Posts: 1128

hi all
i emerged proftpd recently. Right now i can;t seem to find a way to make it start on its own, please help!!!!
also i am thinking of securing my box with some good firewall(i have heard of shorewall)
so please guide me.
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foton2 · Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2004 6:48 pm Post subject:

Firewall .....iptables
proftpd rc-update add proftpd default to run proftpd at boot
/etc/init.d/proftpd start to run proftpd now.

sobers_2002 · Veteran Joined: 16 Mar 2004 Posts: 1128

hermes_jr · Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2004 7:38 pm Post subject:

sobers_2002 · Veteran Joined: 16 Mar 2004 Posts: 1128

while starting it gives an error

foton2 · Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2004 8:47 pm Post subject:

And what about your /etc/hosts ?
Is there
127.0.0.1 localhost dennis

cornman · n00b Joined: 21 Jan 2004 Posts: 3

edit /etc/xinetd.conf so that not just localhost can have access.
edit /etc/xinetd.d/proftpd so that it is no longer disabled.
edit /etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf so that it runs in inetd mode, rather than standalone.
run 'rc-update add xinetd default'.
run '/etc/init.d/xinetd start'.

sobers_2002 · Veteran Joined: 16 Mar 2004 Posts: 1128

i dont have a xinetd.conf in /etc :?:

plus i get the foll prob

Nossie · Apprentice Joined: 19 Apr 2002 Posts: 181

Hi,

If you get this :

sobers_2002 · Veteran Joined: 16 Mar 2004 Posts: 1128

cornman · n00b Joined: 21 Jan 2004 Posts: 3

sorry, you have to emerge xinetd if you want to use xinetd... forgot to tell you.

The advantage of xinetd is that you only have to have one net daemon running in the background... xinetd. Otherwise you would have proftpd, telnetd, sshd, whateverd running in the background all at once. Xinetd works by listening to all ports, and when a client tries to connect, it starts up the appropriate daemon. This could cause a little latency on critical servers 'cause a new instance of the daemon needs to be started for each individual connection, but at home its great... it frees a few resources and is better organized (imho) than having a bunch of daemons start when you boot.

Xenzeo · n00b Joined: 27 Feb 2004 Posts: 49

Could the problem be fixed with

Bind <ip-addy>

in the proftpd config file?

Insted of xinetd use it as standalone

kimachi.com · Posted: Sun Apr 18, 2004 12:37 pm Post subject: my PROFTPD no better

I'm getting:

sobers_2002 · Veteran Joined: 16 Mar 2004 Posts: 1128

when proftpd is installed a grp with name "proftpd" and a user with same name are created and so is a directory with name "/home/ftp".....with the above users and grp. creating them should do the job 4 u

luck!!
Saurabh